… Dropping a new Ryzen 5000 series chip or a 5000 series X3D chip, if you're feeling ambitious onto your existing board will provide a night-and-day reduction in frame time variance, especially since most users are priced out of a jump to AM5 thanks to the DDR5 RAM crisis. …
… That was addressed with a microcode update. Last generation, a slew of AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs were burning themselves up in the CPU socket, again due to improper voltages. AMD addressed the issue with a new AGESA in a matter of days. …
… The FPS gains are real Very significant in Escape From Tarkov My Ryzen 7 7800X3D and RTX 5080 perform relatively well without Smooth Motion, but for a game that's so CPU bound and hard to maintain high refresh rate performance, every frame matters. …